With regret, our clients do not offer sponsorship.
Location: Attleborough, Norfolk
Hours: 13 hours per week with flexibility to cover overnight and staff annual leave. Shifts and availability will be discussed at interview. Typical shifts are 8am-9pm, 8am-4.30 pm and 4.30pm-9pm and overnights are 9pm-12 noon the following day.
Pay:
- Weekdays: £15.17 per hour
- Weekends: £17.23 per hour
- Sleeping Nights 9pm-7am: National Living Wage
Benefits:
- 5.6 weeks holiday (pro rata)
- Pension (subject to qualifying status)
- Free DBS check
- 2 weeks employer sick pay after probation
- Free parking
- Induction
- Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate)
- Regular clinical supervision/review meetings
- Ongoing support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department
Driving:
Driver required: Essential
Vehicle use: Will be using the client's car, automatic
Using own vehicle for work: Yes, on duty and to attend training
Start Date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)
Job Summary
Our client is a 30-year-old lady who is happy, sociable with a great sense of humour. She enjoys basketball and football in the garden, puzzles, games, preparing her meals, dancing to music, swimming, and going on adventures in the community or on holiday. She also loves spending time with her family and friends. She lives at home in an annexe attached to the main house with her parents and two small dogs.
She has an acquired brain injury and is a wheelchair user and also uses a walking frame to get around and has a therapeutic support plan in place. She requires a rest in the afternoon to recharge. We are looking for a confident, compassionate, caring, and positive person with good communication skills and able to make decisions and use your initiative as you will be working on your own.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Supporting the development of independence with all activities
- Daily exercises to support her activity programme including rehabilitation and hydrotherapy
- Deliver personal care tailored to her individual needs
- This is a physically demanding role which involves supporting our client with her mobility, using moving and handling techniques and equipment safely (eg wheelchair, standing frame, bike etc)
- Transporting our client in her own adapted Motability vehicle
- Promoting purposeful, structured time both at home and out in the community
- Assisting/supporting with medication administration
- Maintain accurate digital/paper records
You’ll be working as part of a small friendly team guided by Team Leader, and parents daily and supported by a Case Manager.
Safeguarding
ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our clients’ employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This position will require:
- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK
- Satisfactory references, including from your most recent employer
- Enhanced DBS check (A conviction will not necessarily prevent employment)
Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of the schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnerships and religion and belief.